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Up to $27.2 million awarded for AI-powered micro-robot
The robot’s spinning motion both propels it through the bloodstream and shrinks clots in place. The multi-year ARPA-H award could bring this non-invasive approach to millions of stroke patients worldwide.
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Tau Beta Pi announces 2026 Teaching Award and Teaching Honor Roll
This year’s nominees recognized for mentoring the next generation.
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AI designs the ideal burger for taste, health, and planet
Stanford researchers developed an AI tool that creates novel burger recipes optimized for individual preferences. The implications for science go well beyond food.
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Tech Support
As the population ages, robots are poised to offer a helping hand, a leg up, and a pep for your step.
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Twirling to treat stroke
How a spinning device shrinks blood clots in the brain
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Juan Santiago among Stanford faculty elected to the National Academy of Engineering
Three Stanford faculty members have earned one of engineering's highest professional distinctions.
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Audio-augmented wearable aims to improve mindfulness
A new device uses focused sound cues to keep users grounded amid digital distractions.
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Smartphones democratize neuromuscular disease monitoring
A new study finds that smartphones can reliably monitor treatments for neuromuscular diseases
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Prof. David Kelley on How to start your creative engine
Tips for creativity, honed over five decades of innovation on the Farm.
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A game-changing way to treat stroke
Researchers at Stanford have developed a new technology for removing blood clots that is more than twice as effective as current techniques.
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‘In my lab, curiosity drives discovery’
Stanford mechanical engineer Renee Zhao is developing new devices to treat disease – like a tiny robot that can swim through the vascular system to shrink blood clots in the brain.
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Exploring a future with in-home robot caretakers
Allison Okamura, a science fellow from Hoover’s Technology Policy Accelerator, is working on a new generation of robots that can help care for people in their homes as they get old
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Kenneth Goodson named vice provost for graduate education and postdoctoral affairs
Goodson will begin his tenure on April 1.
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The future of robotic surgery
A mechanical engineer discusses her recent advances in robotic surgery, including millimeter-scale robots that travel through the bloodstream to deliver treatment.
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New knit haptic sleeve simulates realistic touch
Researchers at Stanford Engineering have developed a lightweight, comfortable knit sleeve that uses pressure-based haptics to simulate touch, opening up new possibilities for weara
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Allison Okamura is revolutionizing rehabilitation
How soft robotics and teleoperation could improve mobility and recovery in patients.
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Meet a few of the roboticists designing tomorrow’s technology at the new robotics center
Stanford Engineering faculty are building on our deep robotics history and creating advanced and intelligent robots with far-reaching capabilities.
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Making engineering education accessible to blind and low-vision learners
A new study of a blind student’s experience reveals which accessibility tools can improve learning – and what gaps remain.
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MicroDicer and MicroGrater make quick work of tumor dissection
Two new biology lab tools will help researchers quickly turn out scores of uniformly sized tissue samples to study many therapies at once.
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Robert Moffat, expert on heat transfer and beloved teacher, dies at 96
One of the foremost experts on experimental methods in the thermal sciences, Moffat is remembered for insights related to the cooling of gas turbines and electronic systems and for
